Improvement in children s carriages



R. a. BENTON.-

Childrens Carriages.

Patented Dec.v8,1874.

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Witnesses:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RODNEY e. RRITTON, OE SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHILDRENS CARRIAGES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 157,574, dated December 8, 1874; application filed June 3, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RODNEY G. BRITT N, of Springfield, in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Childrens Carriages, of which the following is a specification:

This invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical section. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section in the plane 00 a, Fig. 1'. Fig. 3 is an inverted plan of the canopy.

Similar letters indicate correspondin parts.

This invention consists in combining, with the frame and covering of a canopy, a layer of wood, straw-board, sheet metal, or other equivalent material, for the purpose of giving a rigid support to the covering, and to retain the same securely in shape 5 also, in a standard fastened to the front of the seat of a twincarriage, in combination with adividing-strap running from said standard to the back of the seat, and with two guard-straps, which extend from said central standard to the sides of the seat, so that, if the carriage is occupied by two children, either child can be removed without endangering the safety of the other. The outer ends of the guard-straps are secured to hooks formed at the bottom ends of curved standards, which support the front portion of the canopy, and which are curved backward, so as to give easy access to the occupants of the carriage, and to form additional safeguards, preventing the children from falling out over the sides of the seat.

In the drawing, the letter A designates the body of my carriage, in which is secured the seat B. From said seat rise four standards, 0 D, which support the canopy E. This canopy is constructed of a frame, a, and traverses b, which support a layer, 0, of thin boards of wood, or of straw-board, or of sheet metal, or of any other rigid material, which can be readily and securely fastened to. the frame a and traverses b, and which, when thus secured, forms a rigid support for the covering 11, serving to keep said covering firmly in shape and in position. The standards 0 rise while the standards D rise from the sides of the seats, being secured to the same near their front ends, and being curved, so as to form hooks e for the reception of the guard strap or straps, and then said standards are turned back at a short distance above the sides of the seat, and within a short distance of the rear standards 0, so that they form additional safeguards f, preventing the occupant or occupants of the carriage from falling out over the sides of the seat, and at the same time easy access can be had to the seat from either side of the carriage.

When my carriage is arranged for a twincarriage, I secure to the front of the seat a central standard, F, from which extends a di viding-strap, G, to the back of the carriage, and two guardstraps, H, one to each side of the seat. By this arrangement the seat is divided in two compartments, and the occupant of each compartment can be readily removed or replaced without endangering the safety of the occupant of the other compartment. If desired, either compartment can be used without using the other, or the dividing-strap G can be taken 01'1", and both compartments can be transformed into one, and used by one child.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of a rigid layer, 0, with the canopy-frame a, traverses b, and covering at, substantially as and for the purpose de scribed.

2. The standards D, forming books 6 and safeguardsf, in combination with the body A,

seat B, canopy E, and guard-strap or straps H, substantially as set forth.

3. The central standard F, dividing-strap G, and guard-straps H, in combination with the seat B of a childrens carriage, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

RODNEY G. BRITTON. Witnesses:

AUGUSTUS L. ROBINSON, SAML. W. PORTER. 

